I have a DR that is almost 13' square so mine is close to your size. My DR table (without leaves) is almost exactly 56" square. It looks great when no one is eating at it, but even without putting in a leaf (it will seat 5 a bit crowded, 4 better), it is hard to get around. I have a small sideboard on one wall, a chest on another wall, and no furniture on the 3rd/4th walls and it's still crowded. Serving is a nightmare as I cannot get behind the chairs to go around the table. If I put in a leaf (my leaves are about 24" wide), I can seat 6 comfortably. One Christmas, I had to put in 2 leaves, and the people at the end, well, one had his chair practically in the entrance into the LR, and the other was up against the french doors that lead to outside - it was awful and this was to seat 9 people! I cannot imagine how you can possibly use your table in this room, or any other table and hope to seat 10 people. It's just not big enough. It takes a BIG DR to hold a table that can seat 10 comfortably. My DD has a DR that is 15' x 16 1/2'. Her table is 52" wide and if she uses small chairs, she can seat two at each end and with two leaves in her table (a triple pedestal table), she can seat 4 down each side, thus 12 in total. One time, she seated 14 - it was very cramped - no b&b plates, single wine glass in the table setting.

srg215, I say go for it! I like what you created, and I agree with some of the posters that some of the negative comments may be bc you put in the disclaimer that you made these. If you worked these out onto a larger canvas, they could look wonderful. Who knows until you try it. This entire thread is interesting bc it begs the question, what is art? And what makes one person more worthy/qualified in turning it out than somebody else? There are definitely some things on etsy that people are selling that I think look amateurish, and that I think I could do a better job at creating. It's all subjective. I think it's more difficult when the art is abstract art. I'm in the same boat as you, in that I don't want to spend a ton of cash on art, yet I want to fill my walls. I don't see why making something is any worse of a solution than buying a bunch of inexpensive prints/fabric/tapestery, etc. that you may not love, to act as a place filler. Anything that you don't love becomes a place filler. So, while prints or tapestries/fabric might be a good long term solution for one person, it may be just as temporary a solution for you as these homemade paintings. Your post is timely, bc I just finished making my own painting to fill up a space in my house. This is the 2d one I've done, and I'm pretty happy with it despite the fact that I know that some people will think it's not professional, and despite the fact that I had no idea what I was doing. It was fun to do, and it makes me happy to see it, and I think it's a lot better than some impersonal art that I may have randomly picked up at some store or on some website. Btw, you can put together your own canvases rather cheaply and frame them. My paintings have all been large, like 4 ft x 5.5 ft., and I just put together the frame with 2" x 2" and stapled a canvas around it that I bought at Michael's. When I was done the with the painting, I took some pre-primed 1" x 2" and painted them black and nailed them to my finished painting. I still haven't framed the last one I did, but you can see the frame on the first one (the barn painting). Here is the barn one I did, which was my first (the blue isn't as bright as in the photo. I think it's the flash that made it look bright): And here is the one I just finished (I may still tweak some things. I haven't decided yet if I'm completely done. The photo is a bit dark):

Cross post this in the Home Decorating forum. Much more people there and you should get some good advice.

I think a rug would make it work fine. But I'm wondering if you've seen the table and been able to sit at it? It looks like there is not much room for people's legs; I think it would be very uncomfortable to not be able to straighten out your legs or be able to cross your ankles, etc. Perhaps there is more room than the picture shows?